My feet twitch a bit under my weight as I take my position in front of the door, my hands tight on my trusty spear.
The mood is heavy.
We have a new formation we practiced on before going to the new door, jenna is now way behind all of us since she can finally shoot with her bow, annie is at her usual place...
Actually, the formation is pretty much the same. Kinda exaggerated with the neeeew formation we practiced.
Just wanted to sounds badass
The main difference that will happen compared to the first door is that instead of jenna rushing back behind, from now on she'll always stay as far as possible with annie in front of her.
And balrow, when the door open, will directly need to push forward as malfoy and I follow just behind to provide offense.
I stare ahead as the blue...oh, it's a green light now? The green light spread on the door like pulsating veins, before parasiting the entire wall of the room and taking over the current light source to blind us in a show of green.
Barely before I can open my eyes fully, I can hear the sound of metal shifting, groaning and complaining against the perfect smooth ground as balrow rush forward in the room following our plan, MY plan, my system.
Blinking the small tears in my eyes caused by the light, I take one step, two step, three step, and me and malfoy just beside each other are already running in behind the badass grandpa.
I can see how hard he is tightening this shield, ready for any danger, malfoy is doing the same, and I do too.
The girls are probably ready too.
Seeing no immediate threat however, I spare myself a small glance around us, compared to the other door, our surrounding are way...what would be the word? Oh! Right, wilder.
It's nature, we're in the middle of nature.
Well, more precisely, we look like to be in a cave.
I almost trip on a big rock before keeping up the intense pace, spear raised high.
Lots of rocks...and craters? Some shit that look like to be a nest of something, an animal or some sort, some sort of big pile of a soft looking material.
There are are piles of those materials a bit everywhere around us, some of them have some strange of brown patch of fur, like shedding. The ground I step on is obviously rock, as we're in a cave, the rocks have a strange shade of orange though....kinda look like bricks.
Well, without the uniform shit, it's like, rocks...but with brick color.
We're almost in the dark, but in front of us, really close to the main entrance from where we came from a big wide opening let sunlight come through.
Illuminating us all enough to see in the half-dark cave.
Overall, a pretty good looking natury cave, I wouldn't be shocked to see such a sight if I go hiking somewhere and started exploring around with friends!
Looks pretty cozy actually.
wouldn't mind coming here and explore with a group of friends before coming back out, do some stupid shit like climbing a tree and doing a backflip off of it before exploring the beauty of nature some more.
You know what's not natural to see though?
A full grown 80 kg man flying backward like he got hit by a truck.
The sound of a shield impacting something, something, something really strong resonate in the badly insulated cave as balrow, in all his old badassness fly back 6 full steps, gravity taking him on a ride for 1 good second before he land back on his feet. Stumbling with his footwork, to reduce the power of the impact.
The impact so strong he went from the one in front of the formation to behind us, slamming into annie that barely manage to stop both of their fall.
Rocks and dust fly in the air right in front of my face, as a single, perfect horizontal trail follow balrow feet as he get propulsed away.
Following the foot trail of balrow unstable footwork, my head slowly tilt to my right to see the biggest boar I have ever seen in my life.
A machine of death and destruction, brown fur over a traditional bulked up pig like body. Small beady eyes staring into my soul as a strange tusk loom down.
It's something that look more like a big plate of bone that cover bottom of the boar skull than anything to be honest.
It's barely three inches smaller than me, in HEIGHT, and around 500 kg wider.
When I see that.
I don't think much.
Instead, I just, drive my feet onto the ground, my shoes sliding under the rough rocks under me, a grating sound reach my ear but I don't focus on it.
No, my focus is completly taken by the staring contest between the giant boar and me, his hooves slam against the ground, kicking up dust and fur as it rush at me like the mindless beast it is.
It let out the more terrifying pig like roar I ever heard. The kind that make my hair rise up, and put a weight in my gut.
Who knew pig screams could be scary.
Using my new foothold after stopping my sprint, I do a complete 360 and scream so hard even my voice surpass the boar voice.
My throat hurt.
"RETREAT!"
Doing another sprint, this time on the other direction. Back in the safe zone. I don't see how the boar falter mid sprint for a second as he hear my human roar.
Nor do I see how it compose itself just after as he see me run away from him and pick up speed.
Heading my call, malfoy on my right now, wisely decide to do the same and run the heck away from the pig.
My legs send myself forward as fast as they did when I runned away after killing twitchy...let's hope there isn't any table on my way this time.
And like before, with the determination to return home, I run.
I run, because there is no way in hell I'm facing that, THAT, in it's natural habitat, a behemoth of lean muscles that would go toe to to with a fucking rhinoceros of all things.
I don't think you understand, how MASSIVE, this guy is, I'm pretty sure this guy could make an elephant fall if he rushed at it from behind....maybe.
The sounds of hooves slamming against the ground with the determination of a berseker bring me back to reality, I barely see a glance of malfoy running away for his life just like me, and a small glance forward show the horrified looks of the girls that just intercepted the balrow shaped comet.
Jenna move away toward the hole and litterally pull annie the fuck away inside our safe zone as she does the same.
She ready an arrow on her string, gaze focused on a gigantic shit coursing the hell out of us.
Annie stumble behind her, her daggers out, but completly outmatched by the situation, she take a rock out of her inventory, and lift it up above her head.
As balrow, already...wait where is balrow?
My thoughts get interupted as I feel the big and foul breath of a monster catching up to me, warming my already hot back, temperature rising as my heart beat faster and faster to keep up the escape.
I risk a glance to my side and see the shield like tusk at the bottom of it's snout almost brushing my shirt, malfoy seems to be on the same predicament.
It's, obviously faster.
But someone else is even faster.
Well, faster wouldn't be the right word, more like....determined, yes. That's the word.
If my confidence faltered when I saw a gigantic monster.
If malfoy arrogance prioritized survival.
If mousy fake bloothirst left again.
If jenna fear is warring against her vandetta for monsters.
Well.
The old comet passing by my side, a trail of dust following. A glint of abused metal crushed in his hands, rush on the direction we're escaping from. Jumping like a madman on the beast 3 times his weight to slam his shield against it's natural defences. Taking revenge against his first exchange with a loud sound of metal and bones meeting against each other.
His feet digg in the ground at the end of the impact, holding himself up, steady, firm, unwavering, leaving only a simple show of weakness as he get pushed back again for a small moment....just like his opponent.
Looks like the badass grandpa determination to protect the young generation didn't waver.